
Born in Bavaria, Philipp Wolfrum (1854-1919) studied both organ and composition with Joseph Rheinberger, and subsequently became a highly regarded teacher and choir director as
Haydn’s keyboard sonatas may look simple on the page, yet their exposed textures and structural subtleties require the utmost in technical control and focused musicianship
Through many recordings, mainly during the CD era, fans of French Baroque harpsichord music have enjoyed the relatively small though incomparably rich and profoundly delicate
Boris Berman’s second Naxos release devoted to John Cage’s piano music presents a handsome cross-section of the composer’s prolific output from the 1940s. For most
A strong personality, intelligent musicianship, and supreme technical refinement grace Evgeni Koroliov’s previous Tacet releases devoted to music of Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert. The same
Virtuoso piano transcriptions of Johann Strauss waltzes are a specialty of the house for pianist Rorianne Schrade, who certainly has the fingers and innate sense
The best one can say about this extremely hit-and-miss Balakirev piano music cycle (recorded in 1992 for the Essay label) is that it is a
I didn’t listen to all 78 minutes of solo flute music on this disc at once, but so varied is the repertoire and so characterful
Although Leonard Bernstein was an outstanding pianist and usually composed at the keyboard, he wrote little solo piano music in relation to his better known
Pianist Jenny Lin’s first (and hopefully not last) solo outing for Hänssler Classic brings us a rich gallery of Russian piano preludes dating from the